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Old 08-02-2003, 11:49 PM   #16
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"Microsoft refused to go into the hardware business, insisted on making its software run on hardware that anyone could build, and thereby created the market conditions that allowed hardware prices to plummet. In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not to a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist."
well,the point is noted.
Well,we do discuss some good things abt Billy.After all,he employes a large number of people.(Considering the indirect jobs created by it).Also, indirectly,it controlls the world economy(literally).Think abt Microsoft going opensource-and hows gonna the greedy stock markets going to react??We will land into say,a really long recession.But,that will be required eventually,when Microsoft cant stand for competition from 'The Open Source Stuff',(though step by step).
 
Old 08-03-2003, 12:06 AM   #17
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yea, yea i get it the socialists are pissed at the capitalists for thier success, enough said.
 
Old 08-03-2003, 12:14 AM   #18
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We are not socialists.And open source is not 'Socialism'.Redhat is listed at Nasdaq and it is making a good deal of money(if not a fortune).Also, free software is not abt price,its abt freedom.We consider software a service.
 
Old 08-03-2003, 03:36 AM   #19
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I don't like M$ either. But hold for a second and think about Bill Gates. If you had made something "good" or at least that the peoples think it's good (windows) you could have the chance to have money beyond your dreams (as Bill has). Should you not do the exactly same thing as he did making the market this tight?... You most would say yes. I would say yes too. With such kind of money, I could help so many others as I wanted making donations (as Bill Gates often does, if he does to get a "good" guy review or because he help from his heart is another question, but he does, helps a lot against poor and misery and others causes, it's quite often on the Internet ). Currently, I can hardly afford my rent in the outsides of Stockholm. I would never miss such a thing. Think, is Bill Gates really a bad guy? Or is he a guy who was smart enough to step forward and knew better then many others, how to sell a product?...
 
Old 08-03-2003, 03:53 AM   #20
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http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/talk...ack_49440.html
 
Old 08-03-2003, 10:59 AM   #21
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megamanx, thats a nicer way of saying what i said, lol
 
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hehe Sorry if I've repeated what you've just said . I also cannot understand why some peoples hates Gates cuz he's rich. It's just as odd as to hate someone because they are poor :S, I think
 
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Why I hate M$ and Billy Gates
 
  


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